Small Strangers - The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 18801925

Informationen zum Autor By Melissa R. Klapper Klappentext Children are the largely neglected players in the great drama of American immigration. In one of history's most remarkable movements of people across national borders, almost twenty-five million immigrants came to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-from Mexico, Japan, and Canada as well as the more common embarkation points of southern and eastern Europe. Many of them were children. Together with the American-born children of immigrants, they made up a significant part of turn-of-the-century U.S. society. Small Strangers recounts and interprets their varied experiences to illustrate how immigration, urbanization, and industrialization-all related processes-molded modern America. Zusammenfassung Considering one of the largely neglected groups in immigration history, Small Strangers recounts and interprets the varied experiences of immigrant children to illustrate how immigration, urbanization, and industrialization—all related processes—molded modern America.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Klapper, Melissa R Klapper, Melissa R. Klapper
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2007
• EAN: 9781566637336
• ISBN: 978-1-56663-733-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: American Childhoods Series; American Childhoods Series; American Childhoods
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous